The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-17

Is it really Edison's superterranean light?
hundreds of persons think So
Is 1t the Star OF Bethlehem come back
again2
Thousands assert it is, and base their be-
net upon the statement of self-styled sci
entists.
1t is actually new star that has worked
itself after ages and ages of toll, out of the
lnflmty of noiseleSs space to find Judgment
among its countless kind in the spangled
tirmament2
There is even scientific authority for this
proposition
Possibly it is but a hayward fragment of
the milky path that has started out to set
up an establishment of its own, or. maybe,
nothing but crumb tossed into earthly
view by some capricious comet whizzing
about among distant worlds.
Why does not some one offer a prize for
solution of the mystery! IL does not cost
anything to offer prizes and it has often
proved an effective method in dealing with
mooted questions of this sort.
IL is perhaps the uppermost matter in the
public mind to-day, that star is In COM
parlson with it the fact that Mrs. Langtry
mas become an American citizen fades into
comparative pettinesS. For the time being
the foneuT's cease to record the status or re-
latlons between Mr.. and Mrs James Brown
Potter In the dazzling suggestiveneSs of
THIS stellar steamer the public is blinded to
the STIRRING question as to what is the proper
color of tennis stockings Curiosity no
longer stands on tiptoe to learn whether the
dec0ttete tendency will really work itself
into pair of shoulder straps. Even the
theatrical liar, who cometh at this season
with an elaborate fabrication of the virtue,
genius and family distinction of his artist,
finds himself thrust into the shade.
ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT.
Letters by the score and hundreds pour
into the office burdened with queries as to
the identity of that bright speck in the
west" From all sorts and conditions of
people, from all regions of the country
State and Territory, town and hamlet
comes the same interrogation:
What is it,"
One impulsive young woman, who signs
herself Merthy Nougat, writes:
u had a dispute with my steady COM
pany. He says it is Edison's electric light
decide this at once My engagement de-
ponds upon it. Also, can you give me a
good receipt for frecklesl"
A man writing from Swansea N Fl.
says: I've just made a bet up to Keene
that that star is the very same spoken of in
the second chapter of Matthew. l bet a
yoke of steers. Do lose? If so be I'll put
label on 'em, Hence these s'tears.' How's
that? VIII it do for a city joke. Have
read your paper since the sixties.n
A young fellow came into the office at a
late hour last night and said he had come
up from Long Beach to get the astronomer
to decide bet as to the identity of the star.
He said he represented a syndicate that had
wagered $3.50 that it was nothing but an
Illuminated balloon sent up at Menlo Park.
A reporter trotted all over this town to
Il, e
stranger. All sorts of theories and suggeS-
lions were offered. He spoke to poets,
preachers, painters, musicians, hucksters,
actors, politicians, Aldermen, ballet girls,
barkeepers-Tom, Dick and Harry.
The answers were learned, trif1ing, Sc
rious, ridiculous, witty, stupid and innu-
merable.
Mayor Hewitt said he had not yet made
up his mind what it was. When he had de-
explaining his poeition and giving his rea-
sons.
CINDERS WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL.
swell, what in thunder is it,"
Why, bless you, gentle reader, Zephaniah
Cinders answered that question long ago
ON the evening of Lucinda Johnson's ger
man.
In the words of the escort of Miss Apple
blossom Bloomer-
''Wat am Wenusw
Yes that supposedly mysterious star is We
nus herself
A very learned astronomer told the writer
so only yesterday. 1t was Mr.. Henry NJ.
Parkhurst, whose observatory is up in a tall
building on Chambers street.
Why, if that was an electric light, he
said, it would have to be up about 700 miles
to appear where it it does.
It's Venus She gets around here once
every twelvemonth. 1t happens that she
looks little better now than when she last
played an engagement here, and so every
body is inclined to believe she isn't the
original production, as played with stu
pendous success, and SO forth and so on.
Owing to previous contracts the present
engagement is limited, and if you want an
advantageous view seats had better he
booked at once
'But how is it, Mr.. Parkhurst, that this
star seems to wiggle and moveup and down,
and all thatw
''Ah, that's all in your eye, my by" he
replied, "all in your eye"
So that settles it,